Welcome to the annual meeting for Cryoport Inc. Our host for today's call is Jerry Shelton, Chairman of the Board and CEO. I will now turn the call over to your host. Mr. Shelton, you may begin.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jerry Shelton. I'm CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cryoport Inc. On behalf of my fellow directors and executive officers of the company, I would like to welcome you to Cryoport's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we are holding in a virtual format. We appreciate your attendance, interest, and support of Cryoport. Now I'd like to call the 2026 annual stockholders meeting to order. I'll be serving as Chair of the meeting, and Tony Ippolito, the company's Secretary and General Counsel, will be serving as the Secretary of this meeting. Also with us today is Robert Stefanovich, our Chief Financial Officer, and Brian Whisnant of Deloitte & Touche, our independent auditors. As Chair of the meeting, I've adopted an agenda that will govern the order of business and rules of conduct for the meeting.
Copies of the agenda and the rules of conduct are available on the virtual meeting site as well as the annual meeting page on the investor relations website, which is cryoportinc.com. The board of directors has appointed Tony Ippolito to act as Inspector of Elections. He has previously taken his oath as Inspector of Elections. Tony will now report the notice of the meeting, the proxies received, and present the matters to be voted on. Tony?
Thank you, Jerry. Welcome, everyone. Let's attend to a few formalities. First, the notice of the meeting and internet availability of proxy materials were mailed by Broadridge beginning on or about April 22nd, 2026, and it went to all stockholders of record as of April 6, 2026. All stockholders of record as of April 6, 2026, are entitled to vote at the annual meeting. As a result, the meeting is being held pursuant to proper notice. At least a majority of the company's issued and outstanding shares entitled to vote are represented virtually or by proxy at today's meeting. This means we have a quorum present, and the meeting is duly constituted and will proceed. The polls are now open for those who have not voted and will close in a few minutes after the presentation of the proposals.
If you previously voted via internet, phone, or mail, you do not need to take any action now. If you previously voted and wish to change your vote, please do so before the closing of the polls using the virtual meeting portal. After the polls close, we will release the preliminary results of the votes. Stockholders wishing to ask a question may do so in the virtual meeting portal before the polls close. Today, we have four management proposals for you to consider. They were all described in the proxy statement for today's meeting. The proposals will be presented in the order outlined in the proxy statement. The first proposal is the election of directors. At this meeting, we will be electing each of the six directors for a one-year term expiring at the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
The following six people have been properly nominated by the board: Linda Baddour, Daniel Hancock, Dr. Robert Hariri, Ram Jagannath, Dr. Ramkumar Mandalam, and Jerrell Shelton. The proxy statement contains information about each nominee. The second proposal is to ratify the selection of the company's independent auditor, Deloitte & Touche, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year 2026, as recommended by the audit committee of the company's board of directors and described in the company's proxy statement. The third proposal is the approval on an advisory basis of the compensation of the named executive officers as disclosed in the company's proxy statement for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The fourth proposal is to approve an amendment to the Cryoport, Inc 2018 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan to, among other things, increase the number of authorized shares under the plan.
That concludes all the matters to be presented for stockholder consideration at the meeting, and the polls are now closed. Based on the initial report from the Inspectors of Elections, the preliminary voting results are as follows. On the first proposal, each director nominee has been reelected by the plurality of the votes cast. On the second proposal, the selection of Deloitte & Touche as the company's independent registered public accounting firm has been ratified. On the third proposal, the stockholders have approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers. Finally, the stockholders have approved the amendment to the company's equity incentive plan. The official results will be disclosed in a Form 8-K that will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days. Jerry?
Now that all the matters to be voted on at this meeting today have been presented and votes have been tabulated and announced, our 2026 annual stockholders meeting is concluded and adjourned. Thank you very much for attending.
This now concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining, and have a pleasant day.